#bath-rugby

#bath-rugby

On a wet and windy night in Somerset, even so, they were made to work extremely hard for it by a stubborn Sale team who stuck in the fight and refused to go away. It was only with three minutes left that Max Ojomoh slid in to score his side's bonus point try to maintain his squad's perfect start to the campaign.

Reigning champions Bath put on a commanding second-half performance to fight back at Harlequins and begin their title defence with a bonus-point win. The hosts had made a blistering start to the match with flanker Will Evans scoring a hat-trick inside 30 minutes. Tom Dunn's reply meant the score was 12-7 when Chandler Cunningham-South was sent to the sin-bin on 33 minutes.

At five to five on a sunny afternoon here, Ben Spencer passed to Finn Russell... to put an end to decades of pain out west.